More than 80% of marine plastic pollution comes from Asia
BANGKOK -- The recent death of a short-finned pilot whale in Songkhla, southern Thailand, triggered a bout of long-overdue national anguish. The creature, discovered in June, was filled to its blowhole with 85 plastic bags that it ha...
By Peter Moore · July 31, 2018
There are two areas where shippers will feel the effect of the growing water and air pollution problem: freight costs and various taxes and fees. There are now an estimated 52,000 merchant ships on the seas, and the fleet is growing fast as good...
The Clean Energy Bill approved by the Legislature on Tuesday adopted the go-slow approach favored by many of the state’s business groups and utilities, leaving a price on carbon and stronger support for solar and wind on the cutting room floor while greenlighting a number of less flashy provisions d...
Bowed by international pressure, shark finning declines
by BRUNO VANDER VELDE
January 8, 2016
China’s hunger for shark fins has been filled largely by Indonesia, home to numerous shark species spread throughout the vast archipelago. Could the tide be turning on the grisly practice of s...
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July 13, 2018 from Weekly Climate Review, MacArthur Foundation
President Donald Trump's pick to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court generated a lot of consternation among environmentalists and Democrats this week, but no one talked about the potential downside for the Nominator-in-Chie...
CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO AMPLIFY WORLD’S BUSINESS, STATE AND CITY PURCHASING POWER IN LARGE-SCALE PUSH FOR ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE FUTURE
The scale of opportunity is bigger than we’ve ever seen before as states and regions, cities, businesses and NGOs unite – bringing together g...
Shared from the 2018-07-08 The Denver Post eEdition The U.S. diet is a climate disaster
A new study suggests four easy fixes By Caitlin Dewey
The Washington Post If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly th...
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CALLS TO CUT WASTE GROW LOUDER
Starbucks ditching plastic straws By Candice Choi he Associated Press
NEW YORK» Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, the coffee chain announced Monda...
According to recent data from the WHO, “9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants.”
The data also blames the alarming death toll of 7 million people every year on outdoor and household air pollution.
It further states that “around 3 billion people – more than 40% of the w...
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RIO GRANDE
Thirst for water clouds the future
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post

Alfalfa hay grower Cleave Simpson, who serves as general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, decided not to plant as much of the...
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MIGRANTS
Crisis is testing world’s resources
The unprecedented global displacement is the new normal, a U.N. report says.
By David Nakamura
The Washington Post
In the wake of an international uproar over the Trump administratio...
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. And in the past several months, a scramble in California’s almond groves has given the world a taste of what may lie in store for food production if the widespread — and still puzzling...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
“A different world” with global warming
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
David Goldman, The Associated Press
SALIDA» We were warned. ¶ On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congre...
Vancouver city council this week targeted single-use plastic items, such as straws, but researchers wonder why the straw has been singled out when there are hundreds of plastic items making their way into the environment.Researchers have cited balloons, food containers, plastic cutlery and piec...
A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O’Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation’s air ...
ANTARCTICA
Ice sheet in rapid melt since 1992
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Shared from the 2018-06-14 The Denver Post eEdition
This photograph, taken in 2010, shows crevasses near the edge of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. Ian Joughin, University of Washing...
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EPA changes could cause 80,000 more deaths per decade
By Eric Roston
Bloomberg
Two Harvard social scientists, writing an opinion column in a prominent medical journal, have put forward “an extremely conservative estimate” that some 80,...
Efforts to clean famous monument have been slow, mostly ineffective
By Shashank Bengali
Los Angeles Times AGRA, INDIA» India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.”
One won...
